It catches those with compassion and a
sense of right and wrong in the middle, aware of the injustice but powerless to affect change.
I allow myself, by my observer standpoint and scholarly method, to absent myself from any confrontation either in my teaching or in my life with the pressing
issues of right and wrong.
I agree, too, that teachers should instruct students explicitly on
matters of right and wrong, where matters are clear enough for such instruction.
You are basically claiming your version
of right and wrong for everyone, and that everyone would see it and perceive it and agree with it the way... you do.
My point is to argue that how we speak is simply one point on a continuum
of right and wrong ways to treat one another.
Every normal individual beyond infancy has enough freedom to make
choices of right and wrong; no individual has enough freedom to do everything he wants to do.
All religion teaches some
form of right and wrong or good or bad philosophy, but, it's the individual who has to choose to do right or wrong or good or bad.
Its a balance of maintaining a clear
stance of right and wrong but living with a softness of knowing that my own life and peace is more valuable than dragging out a conflict.
Really young kids don't have a sense
of right and wrong about this issue yet; their brains haven't developed enough to think outside of themselves and about others.
What he returned to were people struggling to survive, who in the process had lost the ability to discern the vivid
colours of right and wrong.